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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: controversial songs |
| Date | Tue, 06 Jan 2004 17:23:27 -0500 |
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At 01:15 PM 1/6/2004 -0800, shawn campbell wrote:
>
>I think I didn't make it quite clear what we are going
>for on the radio show tonight. We are looking for
>songs that we might feel are advocating in favor of
>extremely controversial positions. 'Cop Killer' is a
>good example, but not so much a song like 'Ohio,'
>which certainly was controversial, but not exactly
>what we are going for on this show. We're trying to
>look into whether there are songs that are, for
>example, pro-suicide, pro-murder, pro-rape,
>pro-pedophile, etc. Yeah, it sounds twisted, but we
>are just kind of examining how far people go, looking
>at issues of whether artists are advocating or simply
>telling a story, etc. That's why I used the 'Suicide
>Solution' and 'Jordan, MN' examples.
Well, wait, "Jordan, Minnesota" is ANTI-pedophile! So even that doesn't
fit. (Albini, typically, doesn't even like to admit that it turned out
that the case this is based on turned out to be utterly false, by the way.)
As for the others: just play a G.G. Allin record and call it at that.
S
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